Albert Einstein Quotes

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• War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.…
• As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when…
• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities…
• Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he…
• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing…
• In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
• Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis
• The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need…
• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
• They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity…
• It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our…
• My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.
• It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.
• If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong…
• Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we…
• Politics is far more complicated than physics.
• Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
• If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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